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The eccentric realist [[electronic resource] ] : Henry Kissinger and the shaping of American foreign policy / / Mario Del Pero



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Autore: Del Pero Mario Visualizza persona
Titolo: The eccentric realist [[electronic resource] ] : Henry Kissinger and the shaping of American foreign policy / / Mario Del Pero Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
Disciplina: 973.924092
Soggetto topico: Realism - Political aspects - United States
Conservatism - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Crisis of Containment -- 2. Kissinger and Kissingerism -- 3. Kissingerism in Action -- 4. The Domestic Critique of Kissinger -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In The Eccentric Realist, Mario Del Pero questions Henry Kissinger's reputation as the foreign policy realist par excellence. Del Pero shows that Kissinger has been far more ideological and inconsistent in his policy formulations than is commonly realized. Del Pero considers the rise and fall of Kissinger's foreign policy doctrine over the course of the 1970's-beginning with his role as National Security Advisor to Nixon and ending with the collapse of détente with the Soviet Union after Kissinger left the scene as Ford's outgoing Secretary of State. Del Pero shows that realism then (not unlike realism now) was as much a response to domestic politics as it was a cold, hard assessment of the facts of international relations. In the early 1970's, Americans were weary of ideological forays abroad; Kissinger provided them with a doctrine that translated that political weariness into foreign policy. Del Pero argues that Kissinger was keenly aware that realism could win elections and generate consensus. Moreover, over the course of the 1970's it became clear that realism, as practiced by Kissinger, was as rigid as the neoconservativism that came to replace it. In the end, the failure of the détente forged by the realists was not the defeat of cool reason at the hands of ideologically motivated and politically savvy neoconservatives. Rather, the force of American exceptionalism, the touchstone of the neocons, overcame Kissinger's political skills and ideological commitments. The fate of realism in the 1970's raises interesting questions regarding its prospects in the early years of the twenty-first century.
Titolo autorizzato: The eccentric realist  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8014-5977-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910459926803321
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